The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-05
ABOUT WOMEN.

MRS. BIcHARD BOND, OF Boston, has |
left Sf3,0 600 to Dartmouth College.
MRS. MARY A. TAIcorT, OF Chicago,
gives $1,000 to the Humane Society OF
that city every year.
KATE SANBoRN, the well known
writer and newspaper correspondent,
is niece Of Daniel Webster.
A LADY who is an accomplished
whistler Is paid for furnishing such
music in New York drawing rooms.
The Marquis Of northampton has
placed his Ulerkenwell property under
the supervision of lady visitors, to be
appointed by Miss Octavia Hill.
DIR. NARY E. BATES. regarded ss one
of the beet Surgeons in Chicago, was
the first womsn to graduate from a
medical college in that city. She has
large practice.
THE women Of New York have been
granted more patents than their sist' RS
in any other State. Toe women Of
Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana and
Wisconsin rank nett in order.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE has pub.
Iisht d an appeal to the women q Eng.
iatd to help in providing a central
homa and adequate organization Tor
the Women's Protective and PIovident
League.
MRS. HELEN CAMPBELL, since her
"Prisoners If Poverty" called atten.
ton to the sufferiDgs of poor sewing
women, has received hundreds OF ap-
plications from people who want
seamstresses.
The town councils of twenty-one
Scotch towns have this year petitioned
Parliament to grant suff age to wom-
en-. Among them are Edinburgh, Dun
fermline, Dumft es, Duub Linlith-
gov and Stirling.
Mrs. ANNIE BOYD, of Grand Rapids,
Mich, has recovered 5000 damages
from q rumseller, Chrittopher Post,
who sold her husband liquor, under
the influence of which he killed man
and was sentenced to prison for life.
MY faith is rooted and grounded
that the CT eapest, the easiest, tie
most natural and proper method Of
introducing reformation into public
affairs is to give woman q coordinate
il faence there.-Henry Ward Beecher.
Miss WINIFRED EDGKRToN. who re-
ceived the degree of Phi. d from Go
lumbia College last year, Is the teacher
| of mathematics in the New York
school OF which Miss Rose Elizabeth
| Cleveland has become the asscciate
principal.
NINE. JANE DIEULAFoY, who re-
| ceiyed the Cross of the Legion OF
Honor last fall for the help she gave
to her husbal d's explorations at Suss,
tells tt tory of Their efforts and die
coveries in Harpe's Magazine for June,
1t is as interesting as q romance.
LADY HARBERToN lately gave lect.
ure on dress reform, to ladies only, in
the Crystal Palace. The room wat
crowded, ard LAZY who attended al
an fgent OF Worth, the great Paril
drefemaker, express ed herse I much
pleased with the costume invente 1 by
Lady Harberton.
MISS LEILA j. ROBINSON, of the SUI
folk county Mass bar, thinks tbs
West offers better opportunities thar
TIE East to woman lawyer, and tina
the further West one goes, the NOR
favorable the conditions become. Or
egon ard Washington Territories sh,
thinks the best field OF all.
Mrs. MARTHA ]. LAMB, editor OF tn
, an sgazine of American History" is
! member Of thirteen learned societies
t a life member of the American Hif
3 toricsl Society and Fellow OF tn
Clarendon Historical Society Of Edir
! burgh. She is said to be very mod
s est and unassuming little woman.
IT ia said that woman Swould be d.
b, graded by going to the polls. Has
r rue woman ever been put in any pt
r sition Of trust and responsibility thR
= she did not elevate and dignity the pr
: sition, and, instead Of sinking to
lower level. lift up and dignity man
4 Senator A. d. Harlan, Pennsyltdnit
: MRS. ERNEST HART has done niue
: to help the suffering Donegal pea
O sptry by system of cottage indu
" tries. Glove knitting, crocheting an
? embroidery give many poor Iris
It women a chance to earn q few shil
y ipgs to help the family fund. Mr.
n Hart is also trying to revive the Lac
4 making industry in Ireland.
e DTHR Empress OF China iseued a d.
4 cree, lust before her retirement, adv
eating the development Of the minir
y resources OF the Empire. She admit
=, istered severe rebuke to the provil
~ ~ cial authorities who have throw
~ difficulties in the way of working ii
l. mines, and warned tnem that sue
B. conduct should not be tolerated.
+ A BILL granting municipal suffrAi
. to single women and widows in Cope
hagen passed the Danish FolkethiI
10 equivalent to our House Of Represe
"a tatives) by vote of 81 to Is, but Il
al committee Of the upper house has
q ported adversely, 4 to l. The bill W
Is supported by petition from the Da
as ish Women's Society, signed by 10
to women Of Copenhagen, including b
q. tax payers.
r Miss FRANCES HELEN CoLEEso, wi
s. has lately died, was q daughter
DlBuOp OOlourOt anu lOlns nuehOA W
a Col. Edward Durntord OF the "Histo
ge Of the Zulu War" She contribut
a. the political chapters, and he the m
r itary narrative. Afterwards she pu
s. lished a work called "The Ruin
ed Zululand," and was intending to &c
A number Of her fathers letters. u
of early death will be lsmented by {
IT. Zulus.
er CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG says that
H. American girl need not study abro
re to become professional singer, B
se can learn in this country II she. v
re work hard, give up most OF :
re pleasures young people prize, stu
"a dramatic action as well % singing,
~ give her whole time to preparatic
u Her general hea tn must be watch
VI over as carefully as her voice. .
must eat nourishiDg food, take pler
" Of exercise, and get nine hours sle'
l., A WOMAN who, six years ego, knit
W nothing Of business, now makes :
Ut only blankets 10 the country that c
"a oo,s,ata Nth thoaen of the tamO